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After someone did some rigorous spamming on my blog, I thought of an idea and like to know if this already is being done.

I have adsense on my blog, and the thing is I did had adsense on some sites a few years back, little that I know I clicked on it myself a couple of times because i was interested in some ad I saw. Then, Google blocked my account and held me for fraud. (pretty rediculous) cause I did had interest in some service I saw on my own ads.

Now, is it then possible to click a couple of hundred/thousand times on someone elses ads? and there get there account blocked? Like I go click a couple of hundred times on RSnakes ads, will he get banned then?

Not that I will do this, But I want to know if this is the case, anyone some info about it?

I like your style when it comes to vengeance, Jungsonn. It seems like you're always getting the brunt end of the deal in terms of having your blog content ripped, and now being spammed. I think you should just run your favorite automated Request tool, set the User-Agent as something funny like "How do you like them apples?", or "Jungsonn FTW" on both their actual page (so it shows up in their server logs), and on the ads themselves so they (the service) cancels their account. Interbutt street-justice time!

Well I thought about it some more, and in the end siteowners do have a lot of power in their hands. If everyone decided to block Google or MSN bot I wonder how quickly people will change search engine. Imagine, just imagine everyone blocked Google. What would happen? and what would happen to adwords/adsense when this 'click bombimg' goes to hollywood and becomes a star? Certainly, Google and other bots depend on the site owners.

Jungsonn, are you a romanian hacker? :) All this time I thought you were in the Netherlands, getting laid, and smoking pot.

But regarding click fraud, there are a number of ways to detect that you are doing that. Often the click companies will detect it but the advertisers themselves can also detect it and request refunds. I know waaaaay too much about click fraud, but I'm under a few NDAs on that particular topic.

I cliked a few ads, but the thing was: I was intesrested in a couple of products I saw through my own ads.

So yeah I can understand it, but 2 or 3 clicks is ridiculous. and even more if you say you are sorry you did it. But I downloaded some products and used it, so am i not a customer like the rest? *sigh*

They don't want your business. Are you sure it was just 2-3 clicks? I've always wondered why those companies don't have the ability to let admins say "ignore these IP's they're mine" in the interface, so you can click all you want for testing or out of interest without worrying about interfering with your revenue streams. I think really that just shows how infantile the industry is in a lot of ways.

I'm pretty sure Google know who you are, based on your browser behaviour (logging in to your adwords account, for example). I know that when I first started an adwords account, my own clicks were registered but they weren't earning any money. They tell you not to click on your own ads, though, but I'm sure they know which ones are obviously yours.

The account's dead now so I can't do any further checking but that's another matter altogether.

I've wondered that myself - never wanted to write it out-loud, but I'd be surprised if they weren't correlating the account. I guess it's one way to stop fraud. Yet another reason I got rid of adsense. Feels way too big brother-ish for my tastes.

I think they don't know, It's a big world outthere with millions of users. Sure they can track them if they wanted, but my fair guess is that we are just a statistic, a number in some big ass charts they have.

On the point of correlating people to data, really, it's amazing how little this is being done. Or people aren't just that smart to do it efficiently, I think this is really overestimated.